unable to write/create new files using gnome editor..

[bruce]

update...

i've verified that i did something.. but i'm not sure what...

if i do a chmod -R 777 foo, then i can use gnome to edit/create files, as
this essentially is opening up the dir structure to everyone... which is not
the setup that was there initially...

still not sure as to what changed, or what led to the change....

any pointers/thoughts???

-thanks

-bruce



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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of bruce
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 1:31 PM
To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
Subject: unable to write/create new files using gnome editor..


hi...

i'm running into a problem where i'm unable to write/create files under the
root '/' dir structure.. i'm not sure what has happened to cause this
behavior... everything was working ok earlier... i can only assume that i
somehow did something to screw something up... i'm logged in as root.. but
get the same behavior as other users..


when i do a df -haT i get:
[test at lserver4 /]$ df -haT
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
              ext3     18G  2.3G   15G  14% /
none          proc       0     0     0   -  /proc
none         sysfs       0     0     0   -  /sys
none        devpts       0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
usbfs        usbfs       0     0     0   -  /proc/bus/usb
/dev/hda1     ext3     99M  8.8M   85M  10% /boot
none         tmpfs    188M     0  188M   0% /dev/shm
none   binfmt_misc       0     0     0   -  /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
sunrpc  rpc_pipefs       0     0     0   -  /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs

if i take an existing file, and i change it to chmod 777 foo, then i can
open/write the file using 'vi'. however, i can't seem to create a new file,
or open up any existing file for write, using gnome/edit...

any idea/pointers in what may have caused this behavior, or what i can do to
get back the ability to create new files, edit/write files..???

the system is kind of useless if i can't do basic file edit!!

thanks

-bruce
bedouglas at earthlink.net


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